ERIC Number: ED275778
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Sep
Pages: 165
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Strengthening Services for Teen Mothers. The Teen Parent Collaboration.
Riccio, James A.; Council, Delia L.
This report examines the service delivery and institutionalization of experiences of seven programs in various cities using the Project Redirection model, which helps pregnant and parenting adolescents progress toward eventual self-sufficiency by linking them with community agencies and volunteers. This evaluation focuses on innovations in service delivery and the operation of sites added after the program's original inception. Sites located in communities were better able to recruit and serve out-of-school teens than agencies located within schools. Both types of sites were able to recruit a sufficient number of community women to match to the teens. Teens at the newer sites participated in program activities more frequently than those at the original sites, but the amount of time they spent in the program was shorter. Employment-related services were diversified and enriched in the second demonstration. Some sites had difficulty convincing potential funders that Redirection's activities and the funding agencies' goals were sufficiently close to merit support, but the collaboration of the program sites with the community foundations proved to be a productive strategy in advancing toward the goal of more permanent funding. It was concluded that key elements of Project Redirection can be adapted to existing school-based programs and can be offered in rural as well as urban communities. (KH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Services, Early Parenthood, Financial Support, High Schools, Job Training, Pregnancy, Program Effectiveness, Social Services, Social Support Groups, Voluntary Agencies
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., Three Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 ($12.00).
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
Sponsor: Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Authoring Institution: Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY.
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